Spring encourages people to reach for their brooms and undertake annual chores. For the kitchen witch, spring-cleaning is more than physical cleaning; it is also a ritual for new beginnings and positive change.
What Does Spring Mean to the Kitchen Witch?
What is the essence of kitchen witchery? Finding sacred in the everyday. Spring symbolises new beginnings, rebirth from the dead of winter, and a time for implementing change.
Spring-cleaning, therefore, goes beyond scrubbing neglected corners. Spring is the time to put new ideas into action, and cleaning can create powerful rituals, symbolism and magic.
Out with the Old, In with the New
What better way to sweep out old ideas or unpleasant situations, than with the simple act of sweeping out dirt with a broom?
Think of the things you wish to be rid of in the coming year, from draining relationships to negative thought patterns. Visualise people, situations or concepts being swept out of your life as you sweep.
You can apply this to numerous household rituals, such as clearing clutter from the home. Let go of any negative associations, feelings or situations that have attached themselves to the object, or the person who gave it to you.
Attract New Opportunities
To experience opportunities, you have to let them in. Throw open the windows to let the fresh air of spring breathe new life into the home, dispersing stagnant energy. Visualise your dreams flying in on the currents of the breeze. Bake fresh food from scratch to symbolise the birth of new ideas, and grow plants to symbolise their growth.
List your desires for the coming year. Take a ribbon for each one and weave them together to represent the coming together of those dreams. Hang them in a window, attaching a bell, windchime, or sun catching crystal, so that you are constantly reminded of your desires and can visualise them drifting in abundantly.
Make Cleaning Fun
The kitchen witch finds joy and meaning in even the most mundane of chores, because she sees them as a way of honouring the home, and in turn, the goddess. She is also adept turning them into inspiring, fun activities. Why not try:
- Creating a magical apron or enchanted crown to clean in
- Playing inspiring, motivational music to boost your mood while you clean
- Adding essential oils to your cleaning water, to create beautiful and mood-boosting scents throughout your home
- Making your tools and utensils more meaningful by attaching ribbons, stickers or gems, carving or painting special symbols on them, or anointing them with essential oils.
Kitchen Magic for the Home
Turn everyday cleaning rituals into magical rituals! Using the tools of the house, already deeply connected to both you and your home, can create powerful spells.
- Chant a spell or goddess song while you work, to invoke the goddess and focus on a goal or desire
- Give the house a spiritual clean as well as a physical one. Conduct a house blessing with smudge sticks, singing bowls and chanting, to clear stagnant energy. Draw magical symbols in the air and create a circle of protection around the home to keep it from harm.
- Be innovative with your cleaning. Create a magic circle or magical symbols with dust, before sweeping or polishing it away to be given up to the goddess to manifest. Divine with mirrors as you clean them, or cast a banishing spell as you flush the toilet after cleaning!
With a little dedication and imagination, what was once perceived as everyday drudgery can be transformed into magical manifestation!
Louise Heyden - Louise Heyden is a writer, artist, work at home mum, sound technician and former school Library Manager.
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